M4800 Owner's Thread

Any way to disable the obnoxiously bright (to me) buttons for volume on the top left above the keypad?

I've been trying to figure it out and I can't understand why they need to be on all the time?

Thanks.

 

As far as I know, they can't be turned off.


Btw anyone know if the M4700 battery slice is compatible with the M4800?

 

Yeah, I don't know of any way to turn off or dim the volume lights either, short of some tape/whiteout/etc.

I would imagine the battery slice is compatible, since most of the other accessories like the drive caddy and the dock are. It connects to the same docking port on the bottom, right?


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You can't turn off the lights by themselves, but you could turn off the lights and the button functionality by just disconnecting the ribbon cable. (Remove the keyboard, and follow the ribbon cable from the volume buttons to where it connects to the motherboard... and disconnect it.)

 

Thanks for the feedback everyone.

If I do decide to keep this machine, looks like I may need to do like Aaron44126 suggested and disconnect the cable. Those lights are really annoying me cause I tend to be in a fairly dim environment usually.

 

Novice question:

Can a "Workstation", like the M4800, also be used to run Normal Business Applications and Games , since it comes with an Advanced Graphics - OpenGL Video Card which is needed and optimized for CAD/CAM Engineering/Scientific Applications ?
,,, Any disadvantages in using a Workstation", like the M4800, for Normal Business Applications and Games ?

 

It should work fine, but I might not pick a workstation over a gaming rig if that's all you'll be doing. I do CAD at work and game sometimes at home - the M4800 has no problems with Civ V at the native resolution, for example. I haven't tried anything like Chrysis or Call of Duty but I would expect it to do fine on medium settings.


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I do a lot of personal stuff and some gaming on my M6700. It works great. The main difference from a "regular" system is the workstation graphics card (Quadro on the NVIDIA side), might be a tad slower than the equivalent GeForce for gaming (for a few different reasons) but it works fine for me.

 

Jumbie,

Idea ?
1. .... Couldn't you always cut out a piece of a matte plastic report cover and with some double stick clear tape stick (or some glue) place the piece of matte plastic, on top of the lights, in order to make them duller ? ... or, maybe even simpler just a self stick matte screen protector film cut to size and placed on top of the too bright for you led's ?

2. Or, maybe use a magic marker on the leds's to make them duller ?

 

Hi everyone,

I have recently received my M4800 with Full HD screen and AMD Firepro video. I like this machine, but one issue prevents me from fully enjoying it: white color is showing as yellow. The difference is especially noticeable if I put it side-by-side with two other Dell laptops I have (XPS 1645 with WLED and Latitude E5420).

HWINFO shows the screen is CMN15B1 (N156HG or Dell P/N VCM8X). I'm not a designer and I won't expect 100% precise colors from TN screen, but I have to work with lot of text and this display gives me strong eye strain after 15-30 minutes of working with small text. I've tried to play with controls for contrast and color brightness in Intel HD Graphics Control Panel, but the result is still not satisfactory. Tried Windows color calibration, but the result is below average too.
Did anybody have similar experience? Any recommendations please?